Sariel

#5,162 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Sariel has been given to 144 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #5,162 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sariel, 2025

1 in 174,000

Sariel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Sariel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,162
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sariel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sariel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sariels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sariel was born before 2021 — so the typical Sariel is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
139
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Choose a decade

2020s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Sariel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,502
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,246
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,255
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (19)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,162
2025

Spellings of Sariel

Sariel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 57.5% against Sariel's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sariel around the world

Where Sariel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2007–2018
    #6,462
    in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sariel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,162
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,246
Best rank ever
#5,162
2025
Peak year
2025
19 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,270
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sariel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Sariel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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